Jun 30, 2020 | Advice, All posts, Perennial Vegetables, Trials and Reviews
I’ve been growing Apios Americana for a few years now. Native to North America, it’s a leguminous plant that has everything going for it – delicious tubers, beautiful ornamental vines with scented flowers and is nitrogen fixing too. Also known as Groundnut and Hopniss...
Mar 25, 2018 | Advice, All posts, Notes from the field
Product review mini tunnel from First Tunnels The lovely folks at First tunnels sent us one of their not so mini – mini tunnels to test out and review. The mini tunnels are 4ft (1.22m) wide and available in three different lengths with the option of a...
Feb 6, 2017 | Advice, All posts, Perennial Vegetables
Hablitzia Tamnoides can be sown over the winter months and left outside in a cold frame to germinate, you will usually see the seedlings emerge within 3-4 weeks. It is good to get them going and sow through November and December because you can prick them out in...
Dec 31, 2015 | Advice, All posts, Perennial Vegetables
About Ulluco Ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus) are exquisite looking edible Andean root tubers and are members of the plant family Basellaceae which includes Malabar spinach. After the potato it is one of the most widely consumed of the Andean tuber crops, but is almost...
Jun 23, 2015 | Advice, All posts, Perennial Vegetables, Trials and Reviews, What's Growing
Perennial Nine Star Broccoli – Brassica Oleracea Botrytis Asparagoides. Is an amazing hardy vegetable that produces a central large creamy white cauliflower type head with a myriad of sprouting side shoots from as early as February through to May. To keep the...
May 30, 2015 | Advice, All posts, Perennial Vegetables
How to grow Cardoons – article first published in Grow Your Own Magazine May 2015 growfruitandveg.co.uk Cardoons are fantastic edible, ornamental and bee friendly plants. I’m obsessed with resurrecting long forgotten varieties and started growing Cardoons 6...
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